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Tirpitz Museum, Blåvand

Tinker Imagineers

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Designer
Tinker Imagineers
Client
Vardemuseerne
Floor area
2800.00 ㎡
Completion
2017

Tirpitz transforms and expands a German WWII bunker into a museum complex comprising four exhibitions within a single structure, seamlessly embedded into the shorelands of Blåvand, Denmark. Visitors experience a scenic journey through time and space of West Jutland that comes to life following the rhythms of nature.

In the unruly bunker landscape of the Army of Concrete gallery, visitors get to discover the story of how the Atlantikwall came about in West Jutland. Once they enter the bunkers, they step into the personal spaces of the Danes and Germans who worked and lived around the Atlantikwall.

West Coast Stories, the gallery that focuses on 100,000 years of West Coast history, is turned into a nighttime 4D theatre twice an hour. The audio-visual theatre has visitors sit down in a lifeboat before taking them on a tempestuous multimedia journey through time.

Along with its changing colours and sounds, the atmosphere of Gold of the West Coast alternates between warm and cold in a timeless fashion, referring to the origins of amber. In the enchanting steel forest, the visitors will discover amber enclosures that are millions of years old, beautiful treasures, and many stories.

From the sunken galleries visitors are able to walk into the original bunker which grounds the tale of an impressive war machine that fortunately was never finished. In the dark, visitors play with light and activate shadow plays that reveal how the bunker should have functioned.